Oh the problems you have (with modern satellite navigation systems) when your country drifts north by 7 cm per year. Australia updating the coordinates of its maps to make them match modern reality – they haven’t been updated since 1994, which is quite a drift, actually.

The one presidential election season when a whole lot of people would love a good third-party candidate…

In other words, Johnson doesn’t just come off as anti-religion, but completely misses the distinction between public (meaning government) and private action that is at the heart of (classical) liberal or libertarian legal theory. That’s a shame: it makes him no different than progressives in that regard – or social conservatives, who miss the distinction in the other direction, restricting individual rights in addition to government powers.

I still haven’t seen anything beyond “natural causes”. I enjoyed his character on Babylon 5 and listened to his radio program (conservative political talk!) from time to time back in the day. From the Babylon 5 creator:

When it came to politics, Jerry Doyle and I disagreed on, well, pretty much everything. Politically, Jerry was just to the right of Attila the Hun. There is a line in Babylon 5 where his character, Michael Garibaldi, suggests that the way to deal with crime is to go from electric chairs to electric bleachers. That line is quintessential Jerry Doyle. I say this with confidence because I overheard him saying it at lunch then stole it for the show.

I have actually never heard of anything like this happening before – anonymous philanthropists donate money to the city of Kalamazoo to help them get their budget under control, cut taxes, and make investments for the future.

This from CNN Money – is the mainstream media paying much attention to the ridiculous, and very sad, collapse of Venezuela? I pay so little attention to it these days it’s hard for me to know. Really is sad.

A local story and yet also not a local story here – a University of Michigan – Flint professor filed a complaint with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights towards Michigan State University because they had a study lounge designated for women only, but not one for men only. He suggested such discrimination (it is discrimination, whether you think it’s a good thing or a bad thing is another matter) might violate Title IX and Michigan civil rights laws. MSU is now closing the lounge.

Like all government monopolies, the TSA blames its failures on lack of funding. But it’s already spending way too much, as demonstrated in a congressional study comparing TSA screeners in Los Angeles with non-TSA screeners in San Francisco, one of the few airports allowed to run its own system, contracting with a private company. If LAX switched to the San Francisco model, the study concluded, it could cut its screening costs by more than 40 percent.

The San Francisco private company’s screeners received the same salary and benefits as TSA screeners, but they were so much better trained and deployed that each one processed 65 percent more passengers than a TSA screener in Los Angeles. They apparently enjoyed better working conditions, too, because they were much less likely to quit their jobs. And in tests by federal investigators, they were three times better at detecting contraband.